Mass Is More - (Bauhaus Earth Manuals) by Alan Organschi & Rosa Hanhausen & Vicente Guallart & Daniel Ibañez (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Der ikonische Barcelona-Pavillon - 1929 von Ludwig Mies van der Rohe und Lilly Reich entworfen - war Ende September 2022 neun Tage lang Schauplatz einer Art kontrafaktischer Provokation. Ein neues Stück Architektur wurde in den Garten des Pavillons eingefügt. Es ragte über die Travertinmauer des berühmten Eingangsbereichs hinaus und nahm respektvoll Bezug auf die archetypische Sprache des einst exotischen Meisterwerks aus Stahl, Beton und Stein. Die Intervention wurde vollständig aus Brettsperrholz gebaut, hergestellt im nahe gelegenen Galicien mit Holz aus regionalen Wäldern.
Die architektonische Intervention zeigt eine radikale Alternative zur Materialität der Moderne auf: erneuerbare, nachhaltig gewonnene, kohlenstoffspeichernde Biofasern, die Gebäude - und eines Tages ganze Städte - von massiven Treibhausgasemissionsquellen in klimarettende Kohlenstoffsenken verwandeln könnten. Das Buch dokumentiert umfangreich die Entstehung eines Schlüsselbaus der architektonischen Moderne und seine materielle Alternative.

About the Author

Alan Organschi is a principal and partner at Gray Organschi Architecture, an award winning, US based architecture and timber building practice. He currently serves as Director of the Innovation Labs at Bauhaus Earth and is a senior member of the faculty at the Yale School of Architecture where he has taught architectural design and building technology for two decades.

Rosa Hanhausen is a Mexican architect and urban designer currently based in Berlin. In 2015 she co-founded a design studio in Mexico City, through which she developed a wide range of projects. She has been assistant curator to exhibitions such as "100 Años de Diseño Suizo"(2017) or "Design for the City" (2018), both commissioned by the Swiss Embassy in Mexico. Among other publications, she co-authored conference papers such as "Post-Fossil Growth Scenarios for Arctic Cities: Full Circle Carbon Recycling in the North of Russia" (2019) and "Hinterlands of Budget Air Travel: Investigating the Journey of Aviation Fuel" (2021). Rosa presently serves as the Innovation LABs Global Network Coordinator at Bauhaus Earth, where she co-developed part of the exhibition Mass is More (2022) at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.

Vicente Guallart is a Spanish architect who works in the development of projects for ecological cities and buildings across the globe. He is co-director of Urbanitree and was chief architect of the city of Barcelona from 2011 to 2015. He also founded the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (2001), where he currently works on the development of Biocities at the Valldaura Labs center.

Daniel Ibañez is a Spanish architect, urbanist, and scholar. He holds a Doctor of Design degree from Harvard University GSD where he has spent the last twelve years studying, researching, and teaching. He currently serves as director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, is co-founder and director of Urbanitree and senior urban consultant at the World Bank.

Bauhaus Earth is a global interdisciplinary initiative of collaborators from science, architecture, engineering, industry, policy, and finance that seeks to transform the building sector from a major source of anthropogenic environmental and social impact into a regenerative and ecologically sensitive means to meet the housing and infrastructural needs of an urbanizing global population.